SEAtS is software on the cloud, built to work from day one. It just needs your data and it will give you the insights into teaching, learning, students retention and success. Learn more about all of our solutions by following the link below…

Within any institution, there is a myriad of support services designed to help students overcome challenges and attain their goals. Research shows that students perform best when they spend time with the people on campus who can help them – typically being advisors, counselors, tutors, and lecturers. Unfortunately, engaging students with these services is often easier said than done.

SEAtS Case Management module of our solution facilitates meaningful contact between students and their lecturers, instructors or tutors. The module encourages students to engage more deeply in their academic lives by connecting them to the people and resources best equipped to help them succeed.
SEAtS Case Management gives lecturers a rich picture of a student’s engagement, attendance and success course at any given stage, allowing them to intervene when necessary ensuring that they stay on track with achieving their goals. SEAtS allow everyone (with a need to know) to see where that student is along that path. These case management tools focus limit institutional resources on what needs to be done next to student success.

SEAtS put everything related to each student’s success in one place for advisors. At a glance an advisor can:

SEAtS and GDPR25 May 2018 marks the start of enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. This new piece of legislation has had a great impact on anyone whose business involves handling personal data about EU residents or within the EU. Naturally, personal data is at the core of working in sales, so SEAtS and our users have also been busy to make sure that we are compliant.This article provides an overview of the data-related roles and responsibilities when you’ve chosen SEAtS as your CRM platform and will explain SEAtS efforts to live up to the values and requirements of the GDPR.Read more

Lecturers spend hours preparing for classes, creating informative lectures and planning engaging activities. Most go above and beyond in the hopes that their students will achieve a deeper understanding of the material that will help them grow as a student and ultimately as a graduate.

Of course, all this work is meaningless if a student does not attend class…

From Student ID Card Readers to Bluetooth iBeacons and Mobile Apps – we can design the solution to meet your specific needs.

SEAtS Attendance Tracking Solution:

Allows students check into class with any smartphone (they must be in the room)

Frees instructors from the task of taking attendance & gives them more teaching time

Get Learning Analytics running on your campus today, on the cloud with SEAtS. Feed our software to your data and get SEAtS working on your team – for your team!

Every time a student interacts with their institution – be that going to the library, logging into their virtual learning environment or submitting assessments online – they leave behind a digital footprint. Learning Analytics is the process of using this data to improve learning and teaching.

Learning analytics refers to the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about the progress of learners and the contexts in which learning takes place. Using the increased availability of big datasets around learner activity and digital footprints left by student activity in learning environments, learning analytics take us further than data currently available can.

Find out:

Who is at risk of dropping out

Who is underachieving

Who is continually missing

Who needs your help

SEAtS is the cloud and built to work from day one. It just needs your data and it will give you the insights into teaching, learning, student retention and success.

SEAtS Software Announces Availability on G-Cloud 9

SEAtS are proud and delighted to announce its continued presence on the upgraded G-Cloud 9 Framework. The latest round, G-Cloud 9, is part of the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace where public sector organisations can access suppliers and procure products without the need for a lengthy tender process.

Buying services through frameworks are faster and cheaper than entering into individual procurement contracts. Buyers and suppliers still need to sign a contract (or “call-off contract”) for each service bought through a framework.

The G-Cloud Framework is an agreement between the Government and suppliers who provide cloud-based services and the SEAtS Student Success Platform and host of cloud-based solutions can be found within the Software as a Service (SaaS) category.

“We have a number of clients who have signed up for SEAtS solutions via G-Cloud since 2013. The process is more efficient and direct, cutting out a lot of red tape!” Noel Dooley, CEO, SEAtS

SEAtS Software provides an innovative platform for student, academics, and staff in order to focus efforts on achieving better student engagement, retention and overall experience, leading to improved academic achievement and outcomes. SEAtS analytical software monitors student engagement on your campus. It works by making sense of the volume of data that are collected across your campus at every possible student touch-point in real time. We look for early warning signals in your data that alert you to the need for proactive pastoral intervention. Effectively, prompting action and stopping student failure and attrition and re-focusing efforts towards positive outcomes.

What to learn more? That’s okay why not schedule an online meeting with one of our student success experts today? Simply click below:

Ravensbourne Goes Live with SEAtS

“What made SEAtS so appealing was its ready-made, automated approach to student success. The idea of something that is easy for staff and students to use and doesn’t take up too much time, it is so easy for students to just tap in on a reader at the start of class than a member of staff having to call out a register. This gives more time for teaching and hopefully has a positive impact on the student experience.”

Adam Campbell, Quality Officer Ravensbourne

The Challenges

Ravensbourne is constantly looking for ways to innovate and enhance the student experiences and outcomes. Ravensbourne identified the need to find a suitable attendance monitoring solution to aid this. Having used various manual attendance monitoring systems in the past that were inconsistent and inaccurate in recording data, a change was needed.

The Vendor Selection Process

Adam and the team at Ravensbourne wanted a solution that could deploy fast, evolve and grow with the business; this eliminated many vendors when combined the need for a solution that would be easy to use and understand. That way Students and Academic Staff would find it easy to use. The Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud procurement framework helped the decision-making process by identifying quickly a short-list of likely vendors. Ravensbourne selected SEAtS as it had the features and track record to handle deploying fast and with ease of transition.

The Implementation Process

Post vendor selection, Adam and the team at Ravensbourne faced the challenge of managing time, scope and the implementation of a new timetabling system. SEAtS and Ravensbourne personnel worked as a unified project team to map out and deliver key project milestones. SEAtS online project methodology and the portal was used to make sure deadlines and dates stayed on track.

Objectives

Student attendance monitoring was of valuable importance for the Ravensbourne team, they wanted a top shelf ready to use system to capture their attendance levels. They also wished to utilise early warning alerts automatically sent out to those students who are at-risk or failing. The solution needed to:

Improve achievement by increasing student attendance

Improve retention by strengthening engagement through improved pastoral care, reducing the risk of students leaving their courses

Reduce administrative overhead of recording, monitoring and following up on attendance, with minimum disruption to the student and lecture in the classroom

Support compliance for monitoring student attendance for UKVI for International students in a seamless and integrated way for all students

Provide a better picture of room utilisation for timetable optimisation for the facilities and scheduling teams, and for senior management to enable strategic investment planning.

Results

Ravensbourne has officially gone live in January 2018. Speaking about this Adam Campbell said:

“As someone who is not directly involved in teaching, I did not have a great understanding of what was happening so inconsistently in the institution in terms of attendance monitoring. I think it has been insightful from that point of view. To see particularly our further education courses embracing it very quickly is very promising.”

The system provides a view of students who are expected in every class and then in real-time shows them swiping in and marked as “attended”. This removes the need to take local class registers. Students who are late are marked as such. Those who do not attend are shown as “absent”. Students who attend a session that they are not timetabled to attend are shown as “unexpected”. Reports are available to report on and monitor attendance by student, module, and programme. Automated alerts are sent to students who fail to attend a predetermined number of sessions.

Key Benefits for Ravensbourne:

According to the Ravensbourne team, deploying the SEAtS system has delivered the following key benefits:

Better academic performance due to comprehensive engagement and attendance tracking for students

Improved student retention due to early warning of “at-risk” students which leads to strengthening pastoral care

SEAtS iBeacons transmit via Bluetooth their own unique identification number throughout your classroom/lecture hall allowing students to check into class and record their attendance via our smartphone app.

Our iBeacon is a cost-effective way to capture attendance information. The iBeacons are powered by batteries with a five-year lifespan. iBeacons communicate directly with the cloud and do not require any wiring.

Native IOS and Android Apps

Check into class/placement with Bluetooth

Latest Student Schedules

Immediate Smartphone notifications of class cancellations & movements

Students can see their overall attendance at a section level

Faculty are relieved from having to record attendance giving more teaching time

Since our Iowa Tech visit, we have received wonderful feedback from lecturers and students in regards to attendance tracking via the App and Bluetooth iBeacons. Speaking about the visit Oliver Castle, SEAtS Operations Manager said:

“The feedback is we have created a nearly frictionless and viable solution to attendance tracking via mobile and going forwards its only going to get better”

The Importance of Learning Analytics for Universities, Colleges, Institutions, and Students.

Every time a student interacts with their university, college or institution – be that going to the library, logging into their virtual learning environment or submitting assessments online – they leave behind a digital footprint. Learning analytics is the process of using this data to improve learning and teaching.

Learning analytics refers to the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about the progress of learners and the contexts in which learning takes place. Using the increased availability of big data sets around learner activity and digital footprints left by student activity in learning environments, learning analytics take us further than data currently available can.

To maximise the benefits of learning analytics here are our customer top 3 features to watch out for:

Improving the quality of teaching

Boosting Retention

Enabling students to take control of their own learning

Learning analytics has the potential to transform the way we measure impact and outcomes in learning environments.

SEAtS deliver integrated learning analytics using the power of predictive analytics and machine learning. These powerful tools will help your team drive student success by identifying critical early interventions that will increase engagement, retention and achievement ratios on your campus.

Why not check out our full datasheet to learn more about our top 3 tips for Learning Analytics. Simply follow the link below 🙂

The Importance of Learning Analytics for Universities and Students October 24th, 2017Noelle Moore

Proven to boost student retention and performance, many universities have come to rely on Student Attendance Monitoring and Engagement Systems.

Placing ownership for attendance in the hands of students, student attendance monitoring systems encourage a better student experience and as a result maximise student potential. Taking a proactive approach to student attendance monitoring allows universities to improve pastoral care, intervening at the first signs of disengagement. To maximise the benefits of a Student Attendance Monitoring system here are our customer top 5 features to watch out for:

UKVI Compliance

Reporting

Student Engagement & Retention

Integration

Automation

SEAtS provide access to real-time student attendance data, a fully automated attendance monitoring system reduces the administrative burden on university staff, allowing universities to focus greater resources and time on pastoral care activities. For more information about how our student success solutions can help your university check out our website or contact us today.

Why not check out the full datasheet…

Top 5 Features for your Student Attendance Monitoring System October 24th, 2017Noelle Moore

SEAtS the leading provider of student success, retention, engagement, and student analytics to higher education institutions, is thrilled to announce that the prestigious Charter Oak State College has chosen SEAtS to deploy its student success platform for its online students.

The SEAtS Solution will deliver:

Critical early warning alerts for underachieving and at-risk students

Increased retention and improved student outcomes

Student attendance documentation for federal financial aid reporting

Click below to read the official press release for Charter Oak State College. Alternatively, you can browse our website or call us on 401 787 4559 to chat with one of our student success experts.

UK HE Leaders will not need a SWOT analysis to know that right now is their “Perfect Storm”. SEAtS can help your team navigate these complex performance, compliance and demographic challenges. SEAtS is the unique Early Warning System, powered by Learning Analytics, Attendance Data, and CRM, built just for HE.
Laser-focused on getting the best possible outcomes for your students and your institution.
SEAtS connect with all your existing student systems.
SEAtS is 100% cloud software, be up and running with the basics in less than 3 months.

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) holds retention, progression, and outcomes as the cornerstone of its framework. SEAtS offer a platform to manage, monitor, and effect positive change to these key measures of institutional success.

Get in touch today and take the first steps in improving or maintaining your next TEF score through improved retention and progression.

We are now the market leaders in Student Attendance, Engagement and Learning Analytics in the UK and looking to improve our offering all the time.

Recently we have replaced a number of our competitor’s offerings over difficulties utilising the data collected. What we did was give them our software and they kept their existing data collection hardware – it’s all about the software!

Identify at-risk students as early as possible for effective interventions. SEAtS Software was designed to help universities identify common characteristics among students who leave the institution, determine key factors that help predict student attrition, identify at-risk students and develop effective intervention strategies.

Our UKVI Compliance cloud solution for universities and colleges can help you to take a big step towards keeping UKVI and other Stakeholder Compliance Obligations permanently at the bottom of your risk register.

SEAtS Software, the Student Success Cloud Platform for HE, announced that the University of Hull has selected SEAtS software to underpin the University’s Student Retention, Engagement and Compliance, to ensure the best possible student experience and outcomes.

SEAtS is the leading cloud platform for student success. We take a game-changing hybrid approach to Student Success. The software uses automated business process workflows to push alerts to students and staff based on statistical scores calculated from historic and real-time campus data feeds.

SEAtS have taken this to a new level with our Student Success Scoring Analytics model. This works by using machine learning, algorithms and statistical modeling techniques to predict and identify at-risk students to further improve successful outcomes and attainment for all students.

A wealth of data can be found all over your campus. We look for these additional touch points to track student participation in campus life. Examples of this could include University managed print services, ICT service desk inquiries/issues logged, clubs and societies and services attendance or interaction or sports center interactions.

Weightings are then attributed to each interaction to enable you to devise a student score that can trigger alerts to further identify “at risk” students who may score lower than the optimum pre-defined score.

This campus-wide picture will give you additional insight into those students who may be at risk of failing or dropping out allowing you to reach out and help them before it is too late.

Want to learn more? Why not schedule a quick online demo with one of our experts. Simply follow the link here:

The SEAtS team are once again thrilled to be sponsoring the conference Student Success Track. The annual conferences is taking place in Minneapolis Convention Center April 2-5 and we hope to see you there!

SEAtS are hosting our Student Success Track presentation and the details are as follows:

Do you realise how important student attendance tracking is on your campus?

Lecturers spend hours preparing for classes, creating informative lectures and planning engaging activities. Most go above and beyond in the hopes that their students will achieve a deeper understanding of the material that will help them grow as a student and ultimately as a graduate.

Of course, all of this work is meaningless if a student does not attend class.

The SEAtS team are thrilled to be Gold Sponsors at this year’s Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices 2017 (SACRAO) Annual Conference in Florida!

SEAtS are also exhibiting at the conference be sure to visit us at booth 19!
Our mission is to build the world’s most effective Student Success Software, that makes it possible for each and every student on (and off) campus to achieve their full potential. Providing the earliest, early warning system giving you the tools to save those critical at-risk students.

Learning Analytics: It’s using the data that counts, not the quantity!

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in education, information speaks volumes. Data analytics show what students know, what they should know, and what to do to meet their academic needs. With the right information educators, can make informed decisions and deliver better student outcomes.

Press Release:

The University of Roehampton deploys SEAtS Student Success Cloud Software to support student retention, progression, attendance and visa compliance.

SEAtS Software, a leading provider of student success software for Higher Education, today announced that The University of Roehampton London has deployed SEAtS software to underpin the University’s Student Retention, Engagement Compliance and Capital Investment Objectives and to deliver the best possible student experience and outcomes.

The SEAtS Student Success Platform is an early warning system for retention, engagement, attendance, compliance and attainment issues. Reports, alerts and data analytics are delivered on the cloud. Students, academic and administrative staff will benefit from self-service e-forms and processes designed to engage and retain students, assure compliance and drive achievement levels through proactive early interventions.

“SEAtS provided us with an immediate solution to any existing issues surrounding student retention, engagement or attendance monitoring. We are looking forward to the future prospects that this solution can generate for our university” said Mike Hall, CIO of The University of Roehampton.

Brexit – What to expect?

With 2 years to run before the full impact of Brexit takes shape (if it takes place which is likely), there is no doubt that it will have a big impact of the higher education sector.
Research has shown that EU (non-UK) students will decrease from the current 120,000 post Brexit. Universities will have to work harder to keep their existing UK based students. They may have to recruit more UK-based students to fill the void, many with lower tariffs.

With the widening of participation, the cohort of at risk students increases. These students need active supports to complete their student journey right through to graduation.
Visa restrictions and higher fees for EU (non-UK) students due to their changing status will increase the UKVI compliance workload and associated risks.
On the other hand, the drop-in Sterling benefits international students in the UK with lower fees and living costs.

Good business practice calls for planning for whatever eventuality will occur. SEAtS can help with our tried and tested solutions for Student Retention, UKVI compliance and much more besides.
We do this by giving you early warning alerts for “at risk” students. SEAtS also have a full suite of in-built workflows to track and alert on visa compliance issues. These two “out of the box” processes offer immediate compliance, retention and progression benefits.

Why not check out our datasheet hub here where you can get more information about our various platform solutions.

SEAtS Assist:
This choice of deployment is carried out by personnel from within your institution. Our professional services team act in a supporting capacity only where we provide comprehensive training services to your project team.

Jefferson College and a few other colleges and universities are making strides to stay ahead and meet their compliance obligations with the Department of Education Federal Aid. One major compliance area? Student attendance – in class, in other designated academic settings (library, internships), and in online classes. All valuable data points for assessing compliance with DoE Federal Aid.

OFFA reports say UK universities need to measure effectiveness of hundreds of millions in student financial support.
The Office for Fair Access says £478m went to direct student financial supports in 2014-15. The spending was on bursaries and fee-waivers. The watchdog wants universities to measure the impact on student success, access and progression. Universities are working on common tools for assessing bursaries’ effect.
Supports are mainly subsidising fees with loans. Low income and disadvantaged students receive bursaries and fee-waivers to widen degree access.

Have you read this article? “How Wearables have Influenced Data Use In Higher Education” by Patrick Cole. https://elearningindustry.com/8-ways-wearables-data-higher-education
The biggest takeaway: “Giving Students Access To Data Can Cause Changes In Behaviour”. It’s too bad that Higher Education leaders, administrators and instructors fail to execute on known strategies to change students behaviour. If you’ve read anything about Higher Education in the United States lately you’ll know that student retention and graduation are hot topics. At most public universities only 19% of college students graduate within 4 years. Whoa! That’s a lot of extra tuition parents are paying and more money taken out in student loans.

The SEAtS team are thrilled to be exhibiting at this years Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada conference 2016 in Vancouver, BC! Visit us at at booth 14!

Our mission is to build the world’s most effective Student Success Software, that makes it possible for each and every student on (and off) campus to achieve their full potential. Providing the earliest, early warning system giving you the tools to save those critical at-risk students.

SEAtS Software announces the release of their mobile platform. SEAtS Mobile will be included with their forthcoming major SEAtS 3.0 update. SEAtS Mobile now includes native apps for iPhone, Android and Tablets to complement the existing SEAtS web apps for students, academic and advisory staff.

SEAtS Attendance Capture Devices will read your current student ID cards. This makes them highly cost-effective and also significantly increases the speed of adoption of the solution on your campus. SEAtS devices use our push-to-cloud technology to reduce the need for hardware on campus. They also work on your wireless and PoE networks which means significant time and money savings on system setup, wiring, and infrastructure.

According to studies in recent years, students who are attending four-year colleges in the United States are taking up to six years to graduate, if they graduate at all. The trend in delayed graduation rates is associated to the student’s lack of understanding about their degree requirements, personal family and work commitments that compete for limited resources, and incomplete support to help students develop and stick with a degree plan. SEAtS Student Retention Platform can help you here…

SEAtS Software have the privilege of not only exhibiting but also sponsoring the Student Success Track this year’s AACRAO 102nd Annual Meeting, which is taking place in Phoenix Arizona March 20-23, 2016.

SEAtS, the student success cloud software company, are hosting the Student Success Track which explores how PSE’s can lead and inspire positive change for the benefit of the students and the institute, a theme that SEAtS Software can relate to on many levels and aligns clearly with our company’s mission and vision. Read more

Let us help you help the 40% of students who don’t complete their degree!

Student retention is a major issue in higher education today – make sure your university takes action sooner rather than later!

SEAtS Student Success Platform is designed with the university and colleges best interest in mind. Our solutions are designed to benefit you university, college or institution in the most effective way possible.Read more

University of South Wales runs its visa and compliance processes on SEAtS Software Student Success Cloud-based Software.

On the 11th of August 2015, SEAtS, a leading provider of student success software for Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), announced that the University of South Wales has deployed SEAtS software to support the University’s Student Visa and Immigration Compliance processes.

“We look forward to partnering with SEAtS on this major strategic project. SEAtS will deliver the real-time attendance data that will help our teaching and administrative staff ensure that all our students have the best possible experience and outcomes through enhanced support”

Cat Edera, Project Sponsor, City, University of London

SEAtS and City, University of London have entered into a partnership to deploy the SEAtS Student Success Platform across the City, University London Campus.

The SEAtS Student Success Platform is an early warning system for retention, engagement, attendance, compliance and attainment issues. Reports, Alerts and Data Analytics are delivered on cloud infrastructure. Students, academic and administrative Staff will benefit from self-service e-forms and processes designed to engage and retain students, assure compliance and drive achievement levels through proactive early intervention.

SEAtS will deliver on the following requirements for City.

Student Attendance

Early Warning System

Machine Learning Analytics

Space Utilisation

Case Management

UKVI Compliance

Check out our solutions page and learn how SEAtS can help you and your institution today, simply follow the link here.

“City, University of London, are innovating by using the power of SEAtS Platform to support their students and provide them with the best experience possible. We are excited to have City as the latest member of the SEAtS customer family and look forward to working with them on this exciting project. City, University of London are our 12th customer in London in the last 20 months,”

Noel Dooley, CEO of SEAtS Software.

If you would like to learn more why not check out the official joint press release below…

City, University of London Partners with SEAtS July 3rd, 2018Noelle Moore

Many students in the UK are unconvinced they have received value for money from their university courses, according to an annual survey.

And a large majority do not think they have been given enough information about how tuition fees are spent. The survey suggests students average 12 hours per week “contact” time, when they are taught by staff. The findings are part of a survey of 15,000 students in the UK, carried out by higher education think tanks.Read more

New Survey demonstrates students in UK doubt tuition fees value for money and would prefer more contact time July 7th, 2016Noel Dooley

SEAtS, a leading provider of software for Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), today announced that the University of Northampton has selected SEAtS software to support the University’s Student Retention, Engagement Compliance and Capital Investment Objectives, and to support its desire to deliver the best possible student experience. The university identified SEAtS through a comprehensive 6 month OJEU tendering process, fully researching the market. SEAtS has subsequently become available for other HEIs to purchase directly through the OJEU approved G-Cloud 5 framework from the Crown Commercial Service.Read more

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